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Originally Posted by zebra2955
Drake got te call right.
But is he the Steve Javey of major League baseball?
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I think that's an unfair comparison. Javey has the reputation as a hotheaded, playa-hatin', whistle-happy referee who is generally despised.
Drake has only 4 ejections this year, including the 2 today. Before that, he ejected Ozzie Guillen for a prolonged ball/strike argument. He gave Guillen a long leash before he ran him, as he probably knew he had called the pitch wrong. But he didn't just run him the second he came out. His first one was of course his ejection of Sweet Lou, who, after being warned not to come out by 1st base umpire Chad Fairchild not once, not twice, not three times, but
four times, Drake took care of the business that for some reason, Fairchild neglected to do. Doesn't sound like a quick trigger to me.
As for today, wouldn't you run the ex-scrub catcher Sinatro for slamming his helmet on the ground and then charging you? And I'm sure Piniella was just as nice and polite as he is in his Aquafina commercial. Yeah, right.
